Turvern Pty Ltd v Jemwire Pty Ltd & anor [2008] NSWSC 420

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Turvern Pty Ltd v Jemwire Pty Ltd & anor [2008] NSWSC 420

HEARING DATE(S) : 1 April 2008 JURISDICTION : Equity Division Expedition List

JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 1 April 2008

DECISION : Transfer application did not contravene any obligation of licensee under lease. Summons dismissed with costs.

CATCHWORDS : LIQUOR & GAMBLING – poker machine entitlements – whether, on proper construction of lease, application by licensee for approval of transfer of poker machine entitlements was "an application in respect of the licence" – whether application was an act whereby licence was liable to be jeopardised – whether proposal to transfer poker machine entitlements was a failure to manage and conduct the business in a proper, businesslike, efficient and orderly manner – whether authorisation under Gaming Machines Act 2001, s 56(2) is an authorisation "under the licence".

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

EMS Quarries Pty Ltd v Beaumont [2001] NSWSC 355 Evans v Collins [2006] NSWSC 427 Geltch v McDonald [2007] NSWSC 1000 Jabetin Pty Ltd v Liquor Administration Board [2005] NSWCA 92; (2005) 63 NSWLR 602 Jegon v Vivian (1871) LR 6 ChApp 742 CASES CITED : Jervis v Tomkinson (1856) 1 H & N 195 Krstic v Brindley [2006] NSWSC 1414 Masters v Garcia [2005] NSWCA 287; (2005) 65 NSWLR 92 Oblift Pty Ltd v Liquor Administration Board [2006] NSWSC 1279 Tsangaris v Gaymark Investments Pty Ltd (1986) 82 FLR 269 Wheatley v Westminster Brymbo Coal Company (1869) LR 9 Eq 538 Zangne Pty Ltd v Cooper [2007] NSWSC 173